[pct-l] REI changes return policy to return before 1 year

[Cat Nelson]

I appreciate the clarifications in this matter. I am not a business or
economics major.

Cat
sagegirl51 at gmail.com
On Jun 5, 2013 11:13 AM, "Jim Banks" <jbanks4 at socal.rr.com> wrote:

> I thought this was a forum about hiking the PCT, not a platform to espouse
> political philosophy!  Discussing the specifics of REI's return policy is
> relevant, expanding the discussion to American business culture is not.
>
> I-Beam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
> On Behalf Of Carol
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 10:54 AM
> To: markhyams at hotmail.com
> Cc: pct-l
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] REI changes return policy to return before 1 year
>
> Good point re: corporations "being people," (which is horse hockey IMHO)
> when it is convenient.
>
> But the fact that the American business culture on the whole is opportunist
> and has no moral compass doesn't mean I have to be. I just keep on doing
> the
> right thing, and I email my ridiculous Texas legislators (for whom I and a
> lot of Texans did NOT vote) and tell them how I want them to vote.
>
> Muse
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 5, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Mark Hyams <markhyams at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think many people are missing what Brick is saying.  He is pointing
> > out the hypocrisy of the American corporate/business culture compared
> > to individual behavior.  Corporations are lauded and investors are
> > thrilled when they squeeze every last cent out of contracts, pay the
> > absolute minimum amount of taxes (even by off-shoring money and
> > technically not breaking any laws), nickel and dime employees, and get
> > communities to give them tax "incentives", whereas individuals (such
> > as those returning REI
> > merchandise) are somehow supposed to answer to a higher moral
> > authority, try and perceive the intent of a return policy, and
> > consider the welfare of the employees that sell to them.
> >
> > Aren't corporations were people too?  Shouldn't they be answering to
> > that higher moral authority too?
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Carol <museumgirl at me.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Jun 4, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Brick Robbins <brick at brickrobbins.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:05 AM, shon mcganty <smcganty at yahoo.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>> .  I can't imagine why someone would try to return shoes with over
> >>>> a
> >> thousands hard miles and expect new ones.<
> >>>
> >>> Here is my soapbox.
> >>>
> >>> They are doing it because that is the capitalist way. You take full
> >>> legal advantage of your contract and the laws. To do anything else
> >>> is simply bad business.
> >>>
> >>> I don't agree with it, but it is our American Business culture...
> >>
> >> Well, we all have to deal with people like that all the time, but
> >> frankly, just seeing it put into words like that makes me feel like I
> need a shower.
> >> People with that attitude (and the professors who taught them) make me
> ill.
> >> I will continue to do the right thing where REI and their more than
> >> generous policies are concerned.
> >>
> >> Muse
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